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André,

On 5/24/2011 7:13 PM, André Warnier wrote:
> Christopher Schultz wrote:
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>> Marc,
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>> On 5/24/2011 10:56 AM, Marc Boorshtein wrote:
>>> I've setup a pretty generic httpd(2.2.19)+mod_jk to tomcat 6 on Oracle
>>> Linux 5 (CentOS 5 equiv) with SSL setup.  With JkExtractSSL and the
>>> correct SSLOptions in the httpd configuration files.  I can see the
>>> SSL environment variables in /cgi-bin/printenv but no headers or
>>> environment variables in the backend tomcat app.  Am I missing
>>> something?
>>
>> Something just tickled my brain, here: you said "environment variables
>> or headers". The data stored in environment variables on the Apache
>> httpd side are neither stored in environment variables (since the
>> environment is shared, and a multi-threaded server would never work) nor
>> in request headers (because that's not really appropriate).
>>
>> Instead, they are stored in the request /attributes/.
>>
>> Unfortunately, the mod_jk documentation doesn't make that clear. I'll
>> try to find a reference, even if it's only in the source code.
>>
> Checkup JkEnvVar.
> http://grokbase.com/topic/2007/04/19/howto-forward-user-name-from-apache-via-mod-jk-to-tomcat/00UYI-2ef5d4aI6oZhrQPFf3JD0

Yeah, except that JkEnvVar puts the environment variable FOO into the
request attribute "FOO", while JkExtractSSL puts them under attribute
keys defined by the servlet specification. That was not clear at all
from the existing documentation (at least not without having read the
servlet spec as well and drawing a logical conclusion).

- -chris
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